Competing for Experience

Vol. 39No. 6

Margaret Littman is a writer and editor who frequently writes for the ABA Journal,Crain’s Chicago Business, and other publications.

Legal aid clinics and other clinical education are great prep for real-world lawyering, if you can nab a coveted spot.

If you had asked Lauren E. Wallace what kind of law she planned to practice when she was enrolling in the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) David A. Clarke School of Law, she might have answered with a lot of possibilities, but tax law would not have been one of them.